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Monday, December 22, 2008

11 Awesome Link Building Resources

What is Link Building?

The purpose of link building is to increase authority. Relevant links tell Google what similar sites think of yours. The more inbound links you have, the more "authority" you have, and the higher you'll rank in search engines. The following list of resources has everything you need to get started with link building:

Introduction to Link Building

You'll notice that in the introduction to link building section that I include a few really long lists of link building tips that aren't really "introductions." However, I think you'll find that the wide variety of tips gives you a glimpse into the many different variations of your basic link building strategy there are.

This is a great introduction to link building campaigns. It's list of the data you should record when compiling websites to contact for a link - keeping track of your links and such is very important. There are also a few tips as to why outsourcing link building may not be the best option.

As you can probably imagine, this is just a huge collection of link building tips (101, to be precise).

I read it often, because with these types of huge lists (very popular with bloggers) it's easy to miss stuff. However, you'll also note when reading it a few link building themes start to emerge that you'll want to keep in mind.

These aren't organized like a bulleted list, and I don't actually like a couple of the tips, but the sheer range of tips from various SEO experts means that by the end of the article, you'll pretty much know the basics what's really being done out there.Five Link Building Strategies That Work - CopyBlogger.com

There's more to link building than emailing other people and suggestion you each link to each other. This goes into other methods, like social media sites, article directories, and guest posting.

Emailing Bloggers and Webmasters for InBound Links

Emailing other bloggers to get links is important, but what do they link to? Remember, every link that's created, whether inbound or outbound, should provide value to readers. This post goes into detail on how to sell that great content. However, this ones goes into detail about creating your most popular blog post ever. (And check out the "Having Something to Link To" section below.)

Once you've read the above resources, give this a run through. After you've gotten a good handle on the basics of link building and how to build links, you'll find that a lot of the tips in the above resources are common sense. But the tips in this link building article are the kind of tips that'll really make you think, "Aha!" It'll get you starting to think ahead-of-the-curve, which is extremely important with SEO.